J H Thomas - to the left of Michael Foot? the Labour Party, but one H Thomas, leading The whole debate came Party conference in 1919.
The key ICSUluLIOR was one which instructed the Labour Party and leaderships to take 'effective action.. to enforce their demands by the unreserved use of their political and power' The party leadership, especially the parliamenMiners' leader Robert Smillie, advocate of extra parliamentary activities. believed in the use of the 'great union weapon' for ends. but that he retused to use that weapon for so clearly and political purpose as that mentioned in the resoluwould, said Clynes and again the phrase is familiar — bea blow to democracy'.
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'THE historical material and fine art have chosen to honour those men and women and sacrifice have socialist struggles around the world.' Christmas TV WATCH out for some real goodies among the films screened over the holiday. and Rhett in Gone with the Wind on BBC1 on Saturday and Sunday 26 and 27 December.
January along with a profile of the Polish film director Andrzej Wajda.
day 20 December. ITV is running Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Monday 28 December at 7.30.
Enjoy! Enjoy!
A Socialist Calender 1982 been whose illuminated labour and Of course we'll all be glued to our seats for Scarlet The nice surprise is Man of Marble on Friday 1 Then there's The Man who Fell to Earth on SunWith 12 full colour reproductions, including Sylvia Pankhurst's 'girl working in a pottery Available from Journeyman Press, Rd, N8 (248 9261) for £5. 65 & 85p VAT Looks good in London - a completely biased selection Goya's Prints, Museum Great Russell Street WC1 (636 1555)
The Great Japan Exhibition Part 1: unti 20 December. Part 2: 28 December - 21 Feb.
Admission £3. Royal Academy Burlington House, Piccadilly W1 97 Ferme Park (734 9052)
Asante: Kingdom of Gold, Museum of Mankind, Burlington Gardens, WI (437 2224).
Maddox St, WI (499 6870).
El Salvador: Repression & Revolution, until Sat Camerawork, , 121 Roman London E2 (908 6256) CHRISTMAS is the friends and loved ones the books that you want to read yourself. gests the following, as the key books of the year for socialists.
Bevanism, Spokesman, £4.95 Mark Jenkins tries to explain Bevanism in terms of its relationship with Stalinism. Nonetheless, packed with factual information about the witch-hunts and the divisions in the Labour left. Essential reading for anyone contemplating entrism.
Comrade and Lover, £4.50 Rosa Luxemburg's love letters edited by Eliza Ettinger. All the questions of combining full-time revolutionary activity and personal life are posed here. Highly recommended, despite the very silly introduction. Inside BOSS, Gordon Winter, Penguin £2.95 Gordon Winter was a journalist and agent of the South African security service BOSS. work (and probably still is). But fascinating insights into how our enemies work.
Food Without Frontiers, Gerard Chaliand, Pluto, £2.50 Marxist cookery from dishes. filtrators with little time between meetings. Long Waves in the History of Capitalism, Ernest Mandel, CUP, £7.95, troduced by Ernest Mandel, Penguin, £6.95 Long Waves is a tour de force, situating the present crisis and the prospects for the future.
Volume Three is mainly remarkable for Mandel's 80-odd page introduction, in which he delivers the polemical karate chop to opponents of the law of the declining rate of profit. Classic stuff.
Tell them Everything, Margaretta D'Arcy, Pluto; £1.95.
The struggle of the Armagh women.
and Writers & Readers, £5.95p.
Weber's book is a little speculative and uncritical, but is packed with the facts. Meiselas's book is a coffee-table time for giving your PHIL HEARSE sugLabour's High Tide, Mark Jenkins, Rosa Luxemburg, Pluto, A very nasty piece of Gerard Chaliand. Single pot Just right for Marxist bed-sitter subversive in, and Capital Vol 3, K Marx, inPenguin's Capital Susan Meiselas, Spot the The top helicopter scabbed on th ed Polish riot police on the roof IT'LL be Christmas LSE workers as th struggle against th
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